Ana Mendieta fused landscape and the female form (based on her own silhouette) to create emotionally resonant art that she called “earth-body works.” Furrows was created at RISD during a residency in the week of April 16, 1984. Her silhouette “drawing”—inscribed amid one ton of sod where the Museum’s Farago Wing now sits along Benefit Street—was eventually reabsorbed by the land through time and weather. Like most ephemeral land art from this period, it is now known only
through photography.